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81 BC (search for this): entry gallus-c-aquillius-bio-1
old grammarians, who never illustrate the usage of words by citations from Aquillius Gallus. His authority, however, is invoked by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (lib. iii. p. 200, ed. Sylburg.), for the statement that, on one occasion, when the sewers were out of repair, the censors agreed to pay 100 talents for their cleansing. Legal Work Aquillius Gallus early acquired high reputation as a judex, and Cicero frequently appeared as an advocate when his friend sat upon the bench. Already, in B. C. 81, the youthful orator pleaded the cause of Quintius before Gallus (Gel. 15.28), and, a few years afterwards, Gallus was one of the judices on the trial of Caecina. In the latter case (pro Caec. 27), Cicero lavishes very high encomiums on his knowledge, ability, and industry, as well as his just and merciful disposition. The speech Pro Cluentio was also addressed to Gallus as a judex. Cicero himself resorted for legal advice to his friend, although, in a question relating to a right of water,
67 BC (search for this): entry gallus-c-aquillius-bio-1
s of Q. Mucius, he attained the greatest authority among the people, to whom, without regard to his own ease, he was always accessible, and ready to give advice. For deep and sound learning, perhaps some of his fellow-pupils, as Lucilius Balbus, Papirius, and C. Juventius, may have had equal or greater reputation among the members of their own profession ; but they did not, like Gallus, exercise much influence on the progress of their art. He was an eques and senator. At the end of the year B. C. 67 he was elected praetor along with Cicero, and, in the discharge of his office, greatly signalised himself by legal reforms, of which we shall presently take notice. During his praetorship he presided in quaestiones de ambitu, while the jurisdiction in cases de pecuniis repetundis was assigned to his colleague. (Cic. Clu. 54.) He never aspired to the consulship, for he was pruden and unambitious, or rather, his ambition was satisfied by the judicial sovereignty which he exercised. Moreover,
46 BC (search for this): entry gallus-c-aquillius-bio-1
tt. 1.1.) Of the details of his private life little is known. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 7.1) says, epigrammatically, that he was even more distinguished for the magnificent mansion which he possessed upon the Viminal I ill than for his knowledge of the Civil Law. It was in this mansion, the most superb in all Rome (P. Victor, De Urb. Rom. Region. v.), that his intimate friend, Q. Scapula, suddenly expired while at supper with Gallus. (Plin. Nat. 7.53.) In a letter addressed to Servius Sulpicius, in B. C. 46 (ad Fam. 4.6), Cicero speaks of a Gallus, a friend and relative of Servius (vester Gallus), who lost a promising son, and bore his loss with equanimity ; but though Gallus Aquillius, the jurist, was the friend and legal preceptor of Servius, it is doubtful from the context whether he is the person referred to. In the Topica, a treatise which was published in B. C. 44, Gallus is spoken of in the past tense, as no longer living. (Top. 12.) We can only briefly review the professional career
44 BC (search for this): entry gallus-c-aquillius-bio-1
, Q. Scapula, suddenly expired while at supper with Gallus. (Plin. Nat. 7.53.) In a letter addressed to Servius Sulpicius, in B. C. 46 (ad Fam. 4.6), Cicero speaks of a Gallus, a friend and relative of Servius (vester Gallus), who lost a promising son, and bore his loss with equanimity ; but though Gallus Aquillius, the jurist, was the friend and legal preceptor of Servius, it is doubtful from the context whether he is the person referred to. In the Topica, a treatise which was published in B. C. 44, Gallus is spoken of in the past tense, as no longer living. (Top. 12.) We can only briefly review the professional career of Gallus. Taught, himself, by the great Mucius Scaevola, he could boast of being in turn the principal instructor of Servius Sulpicius, who had previously learned the elements of law from Lucilius Balbus, and combined the excellencies of both his masters; for if Balbus were more esteemed for solid and profound acquirement, Gallus had the advantage in penetration, dex